"It is not often that you come across pure musical genius. But a few do exist.
In a word his performance is ‘supernatural’, meaning that in the normal natural realm it’s hard to imagine anyone playing an accordion as he does. Victor Prieto is a musician’s musician; he is a composer, a veritable master of melody and harmony, and rhythm. In other words, he is made completely of music."

DownBeat Magazine: He’s the poster boy for DownBeat’s “Beyond” category, a musician used to doing things his way.

Victor Prieto, an unfailingly mesmerizing accordionist from Ourense - Spain, has always been comfortable working in

the fringe genres of jazz.
At Berklee, he graduated with a degree in accordion studies—the only student in the school’s history to do so.

DownBeat USA

2016

Victor Prieto is a neo-classical, neo-jazz, neo-trad voice also taking the instrument and its possibilities into the future. One hears the time-honored ways, not just latino staples but very evident influences of Ellington and others s well, the best of modern cross-contextualizations, and then the Kenton/Braxton/Coleman wont to cast a far net to capture eras that haven’t even been thought of yet.

Veritas Vampirus

2016

New York City Jazz Records

2016

His mother insisted that he learn to play the accordion to connect him to his Galician roots, and he has gone on to become one of the leading players in the world.
“My music is never one thing. It’s a mix of cultures, starting from the Galician roots. It’s the music I hear in my head,” he says.
On The Three Voices he revels in the jazz possibilities of the instrument, while often referring back to his musical roots but moving in directions that are uniquely his own. It’s an exciting and refreshing album.

"Victor Prieto Trio performance, Perhaps the wildest ride you can take with the accordion in modern times, this set is a total mind blower that you don't have to be locked into jazz/world to fully enjoy. Wonderful, wild stuff throughout".......Chris Spector - Midwest Record

Now here's a killer multi-culti mash up you wouldn't expect. Prieto is an accordion player who has the energy and fire to have started a power trio if he wanted to. Keeping true to his Spanish roots but mixing in things he's picked up from his travels, Prieto sounds like Piazzolla on speed. A lot of people pay lip service these days to liking Piazzolla without actually listening to him any more. Prieto has the oomph to impress on his own and also send listeners to You Tube to brush up. Perhaps the wildest ride you can take with the accordion in modern times, this set is a total mind blower that you don't have to be locked into jazz/world to fully enjoy. Wonderful, wild stuff throughout.